Honorable mention for Howard Dean getting similar treatment and exiting the proverbial stage due to “making excited noise that sounded weird” lmao
From that to “grab em by the pussy, you can do anything” and the response being success is some wild shit.
You can always simply lie and say that you get great results when you send it huge amounts of text and really spend time to correct what it’s getting wrong over the session.
If you can make it sound like genuine advice and enthusiasm (that you’re simply wrong about), well congrats, you look like a real team player, and you cause anyone who believes you to also believe that those delicious productivity gains are just another few thousand yeeted tokens away.
Your failure to demonstrate such, should it ever come to that, can result in something like “I swear they made changes, they keep doing that silently. This used to work.” Which points to a huge and real problem, while covering thine ass.
This isn’t how I operate at work, to be clear, but I’m in a way different situation. Sooner your org realizes there is no mythic Shangri-La to be found, the better for all, I figure.
Yeah nah, say this kinda stuff in person plenty, oddly enough folks get it and like it.
Throughout this exchange (that I started, no disagreement there) you keep guessing shitty things about me. I’ve never done that to you, even once, I just keep talking about the single thing you were doing that I found pernicious and bad.
Rather than talk about that, or your own decision making or what matters to you, ya just keep bringing guesses about me…to me. What is the point of that lol? I already happen to know what I’m like.
S’all good. I’m prolly blocked, sad :(
If there’s no benefit to swearing, why pretend to use the word lmao? It’s so fucking weird.
I get grumpy when I see this normalization of a very foolish way to communicate, you not thinking very hard about what you’re doing and spreading is not a defense of such.
It’s bad for people. So yep, agree to disagree.
You sound proudly ignorant, but go off, why not?
Self censorship was not a thing one ever encountered online until people found it to be useful / necessary for favorable algorithmic treatment on the big social media platforms.
And then, since it wasn’t really policies as much as algorithmic vibes folks were trying to satisfy, folks start self-censoring the dumbest shit. Like blurring out the word “hate” and other idiotic nonsense. It’s this very stupid way of warping how people write, to satisfy a machine. And normalizing that, as a normal way to communicate.
So yeah, not a fan when I see people writing that way. Because I prefer human beings.
The very last person who is like that, truly, ya just don’t get it. It’s fine.
“offended” - is that the thing to avoid?
I’m not “offended” lol. I just think it’s dumb and bad for all of us. Use the words you mean. If you mean them, then use them. If you don’t mean them, use something else. What is this weird hack job for no benefit?
Self-censorship like this is utterly bizarre, when limitless even richer words are available, and just typing the actual word has no imaginable negative consequence. It’s bad for all of us.
You can say shit, I have no idea why you’d willingly type sh**, just use a different fucking word if you’re concerned about…something?
You’re in Australia for chrissakes. A land of sincere, devoted contributions to the development of vulgarity and obscenities of all kinds. What are ya doin.
This is delicious in every way, I really love it. Kudos!!
Here’s my tidbit - if you’re in the US and in a not-tiny or remote part of it, good chance you can find people offloading old Dell business-class laptops, workstations, all the way up to v. spendy server machines, depending directly on number of school systems, corporate office spaces (and etc), and industrial or info-tech type businesses nearby. Respectively, and with some overlap and such 😅
Beyond the obvious benefits for sustainability (reuse!) and affordability - business-class Dell have always been engineered quite well (expensively, and uhhh… opinionatedly, lol).
Arguably even more useful, all those well-engineered things were made in huge volume. You will ~always be able to find cheap parts. And, if buying a lot, by having a handful of the ~same thing (all destined for a dumpster), you already get redundancy, and…ahem…some very useful teachable moments lol.
It feels like a cheat code. Place populated enough and there will def be businesses whose main thing is snapping these up, cleaning up and etc and reselling. But I’m in a not-tiny place and I still see some deals. OTOH, all of that got a lot worse once hardware prices jumped the shark, so, maybe this tip is already outdated.
And when they start hiring juniors again, insist on onboarding those motherfuckers like you’re teaching a CS degree. The young’ns deserve to learn, this is some bullshit.
Great points! Lotta my optical media use also included hot summers in cars lol, nothing like an archival use.
Dang that’s rad, had no idea (about it being used in such a way, I guess I mean, not too hard to imagine discs lasting that long).
Sounds like a responsible strategy to draw back from a lot of this. It’s all so…effervescently remade, the “ecosystem”, every few months.
For me the takeaway comes from time I spent in some safety-critical parts of engineering and personal hobbies. Ultimately relying on people to make good decisions ~all of the time isn’t enough to prevent disaster, if something like disaster is on the line.
Systems must be engineered to remove possibilities for accidentally bad, in-the-moment human decisions, where it counts. Thoughtfully. This is the weird same-shape but exactly-opposite doppelganger of that set of best practices.
When the systems are using ~opaque automations that behave like humans (w.r.t. some decision-making and unreliable expectations of behavior) - and then relying on people making the right calls on top of that ever-shifting set of capabilities - I mean c’mon lol.
This is gonna happen a lot, while the carrot of go-faster remains dangling so unignorably (because it’s in front of everyone, everyone working anywhere near the stuff). Until we look around and take a broader view. Which will be learned the same way we learned to make safety regulations, but I largely doubt our ability to respond in a similar way.
The money will eventually respond, of course, but that’s always a poor and late proxy for what ought to be done.
Sidenote, for aspiring engineers, take heart!
It will be you who ends up tasked with unburying from all the technical debt incurred, truly. A practice steeped in the ancient wizardly traditions of yore. Spending a career on that and building something better.
It will be necessary, the work begins roughly a while ago lol but more fully when things settle somewhat. Many large and slow organizations are right now very engaged in simply unburying themselves from the technical debt of a previous hype cycle, AKA now making use of all the data they collected (badly, via go-fast charlatans) during the “Big Data! You’ll be left behind if you don’t collect extreme amounts of data, it’s cheapish and everyone else is doing it!” era.
Optical media? Is that a viable part of backup strategies? I would expect tapes for sure, sounds like you know more than me.
I’m also halfway trying to talk myself into taking the plunge (admittedly not with windows, I spent a good bit of my career locked into it and I’m done lol).
You seem open to share some details, by which I mean, I feel less potentially rude to ask - care to share how long you’ve been working with em (the Frameworks)? And any details therein, how it’s been, any frustrations?
Longevity matters a lot to me, at least in the medium term (and it’s not lost that me buying their ish would help them do that in a tiny way lol), so I’m gun-shy. My current approach is simply to buy old business class Dell things for my household, there’s ~no chance I’ll find myself unable to buy parts cheaply. I do also treasure giving old machines further life, very sustainable, feels good.
Whatcha think? Time for me to upgrade my approach (slowly 😅), or best to wait it out a bit and see what develops?
That’s rad, thanks for filling me in!
Knew someone would have gone and looked lol, this is exactly what I wanted to know. Gonna HAVE to dink around in that sooner or later. Maybe I’ll stumble onto god or something weirder 🤷♂️
Edit: and that’s what I get for reading approximately zero here lol, thought some lunatic had hosted all these and made them available to play with in that way somehow. Which would be a huge amount of work and several other things.